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The Alabama Watermelon Queen has a message for Congress: The seeds of Washington’s debt problem aren’t planted here.

The Watermelon Queen – currently a 19-year-old college student named Jordan Skipper – has become a point of contention in the ongoing debt-ceiling debate. Republican lawmakers point to federal funding of the queen’s travel expenses as an example of the kind of wasteful spending that’s continually pushing the nation up against its statutory borrowing limit. Read More »

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